BREAKING: Second son for Charlotte Casiraghi (UPDATED II - Monday 14/1/2019)
Princess Caroline of Hanover, the elder sister of Prince Albert II (the Sovereign Prince of Monaco), has become a grandmother for the seventh time last Tuesday (23/10/2018), when her elder daughter, Charlotte Casiraghi gave birth to a little boy in Monaco. The baby was safely delivered, reportedly at Princess Grace hospital (in Monte Carlo), weighting 7 lbs 2 oz (~4,450kg), and is the second son of Casiraghi, the first child with her current partner, Dimitri Rassam. The newborn - who was reportedly named BALTHAZAR -, can't follow his mother & grandmother to the line of succession of the Monegasque Princely throne, unless his parents would legitimise him through marriage. So... who they are?
Charlotte Casiraghi was born in 1986, the middle child & only daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco and her second husband, Italian industrialist Stefano Casiraghi. Her mother was the first child of then-reigning Prince of Monaco, Rainier III & the late American actress, Grace Kelly (Princess of Monaco by marriage). Charlotte's full-brothers are Andrea & Pierre Casiraghi. Her father was killed in a boating accident when she was just four, and she was grown up in her mother's family. In 1999 Princess Caroline married for the third time to Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, through whom Charlotte has two stepbrothers & a half-sister, Princess Alexandra (born in 1999). Casiraghi was educated in French state schools, obtaining her baccalaureate from Lycée François-Couperin in 2004. She earned a licence of Philosophy in 2007 and completed two internships later that year. Charlotte was made an ambassador of the Club des Habits Rouges (an equestrian voluntary organisation) for Monaco by her grandfather, Prince Rainier III, at a young age, and is ever since involved in equestrian sports, being herself an amateur show jumper. She is also a journalist & magazine editor, founder of a Monegasque group of Philosophical affairs (Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco), and honorary member of several charities, educational & sports' organisations in Monaco & abroad.
While she is a private citizen, Casiraghi often attends official public events, including the Annual Bal de la Rose (/Rose Ball) with the Monegasque Princely family, raising money for the educational Princess Grace Foundation.
From 2011 to 2015, Charlotte Casiraghi was dating with a French actor, Gad Elmaleh, from whom she has a son, Raphael Elmaleh (b. 2013). Raphael can't join the line of succession to the throne of Monaco, as his parents have never married. Charlotte met with Dimitri Rassam in late 2016 and is in relationship with him ever since. Rassam, 36, is the son of actress Carole Bouquet (known for her Bond girl' role in the James Bond film For your eyes only) and Jean-Pierre Rassam, a French-Lebanese film producer. His father also died when he was four years old, from a drug overdose. Dimitri has a half-brother, Louis Giacobetti from his mother's relationship with a photographer. He finished a secondary school in France, studied political sciences, began working in a Paris byssiness company, and later obtained a degree in history. Rassam is a film director, and at the age of 23 founded his own production company ("Chapter 2"). He is still producing films of warious popularity, including "Playmobil The Movie" (due next year). He was married to the Russian model Masha Novoselova from 2010 to 2016 (when they ceparated), and has fathered a daughter, Darya, born in 2011.
Charlotte Casiraghi & Dimitri Rassam were reportedly engaged in March 2018, though they never officially confirmed it. However, at this year's Rose Ball, they appeared together, with Charlotte wearing a diamond ring (he likely gave her), and visible signs of pregnancy. According to some sources they were planning to marry in 2018, but postponed their wedding until the birth of their child. As of yet their wedding is thought to be held sometime in 2019, with the civil ceremony taking place in Monaco, and the religious at the Italian island of Pantelleria, a property of Dimitri's mother. In early January 2019 some verifiable reports emerged, talking about the alleged cancellation of Casiraghi & Rassam's marriage, just two months after their son was born. However, these rumours were soon declined by a joint formal statement of the Couple, that warned legal proceedings against all the "unsubstantiated rumours of separation" (Update).
But... Why the birth of a child to commoners is reported as breaking story among Royal events??
Well Charlotte Casiraghi is a commoner from a royal mother. Her uncle is the reigning Prince of Monaco. Usually commoners are not counted among important royals, unless they are direct descendants (children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren) of a currently reigning monarch. But in the Monegasque royal family it is not exactly the same. The Principality's succession law is based on male preference cognatic primogeniture, which means that females are allowed to succeed the throne, only if none of their male siblings (& his descendants) is alive. Until 2002 only the direct descendants of a Prince (even adopted) could succeed the throne. And as the then Hereditary Prince Albert was the sole heir to the throne (his two sisters, including Princess Caroline would lose their succession rights after his accession), amid fears that after his death the 800-year-old Grimaldi dynasty would extinct - and if it could not be replaced by another, Monaco would lose its sovereignity - changed were made in Constitution, regarding the succession law. Now the line of succession could include siblings of a reigning monarch and their descendants, but not his/her adopted children, born out of the wedlock. Prince Albert - who succeeded his father in 2005 - had two illegitimate children he recognised, but couldn't anymore make his heirs. So, Princess Caroline of Hanover, became Hereditary Princess of Monaco (after her father's death), and the crown was expected to pass on her & her non-royal descendants, if Albert wouldn't produce any legitimate heir during his lifetime. Eventually he married Charlene Wittstock in 2011 & fathered twins in 2014 (including a son Jacques, who since then has replaced Caroline as heir of the throne). But until then, Caroline's elder son (& Charlotte's brother) Andrea Casiraghi was highly considered as the future Monegasque monarch, and her children (all included in line of succession) would become royals in case she ascended the throne. And while an extramarital child of a monarch could not succeed the throne, the extramarital offspring of any other heir can join the line of succession if his/her parents marry. The latter can happen with Balthazar Rassam too, should his parents legalise their union through marriage (meanwhile Balthazar five maternal first cousins, two of them born also in 2018, are among the first heirs of the Monegasque throne).
Casiraghis are unlikely to join the Princely family, but their established succession rights will remain upon them (unless the constitution changes again, or somebody of them declines his/her position in future).
links about this breaking story & further information:
https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2018102463824/charlotte-casiraghi-welcomes-second-child-royal-news/
https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/celebrity/charlotte-casiraghi-baby-name-17553
https://people.com/royals/charlotte-casiraghi-welcomes-baby/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Casiraghi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Rassam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_Monegasque_throne
https://us.hola.com/en/royalty/2019010213352/charlotte-casiraghi-breaks-dimitri-rassam-engagement/
https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2019010266110/charlotte-casiraghi-calls-off-engagement-after-baby-born/.
http://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/monaco/charlotte-casiraghi-denies-rumours-that-she-and-fiance-dimitri-rassam-have-split-114044
Princess Caroline of Hanover, the elder sister of Prince Albert II (the Sovereign Prince of Monaco), has become a grandmother for the seventh time last Tuesday (23/10/2018), when her elder daughter, Charlotte Casiraghi gave birth to a little boy in Monaco. The baby was safely delivered, reportedly at Princess Grace hospital (in Monte Carlo), weighting 7 lbs 2 oz (~4,450kg), and is the second son of Casiraghi, the first child with her current partner, Dimitri Rassam. The newborn - who was reportedly named BALTHAZAR -, can't follow his mother & grandmother to the line of succession of the Monegasque Princely throne, unless his parents would legitimise him through marriage. So... who they are?
Charlotte Casiraghi was born in 1986, the middle child & only daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco and her second husband, Italian industrialist Stefano Casiraghi. Her mother was the first child of then-reigning Prince of Monaco, Rainier III & the late American actress, Grace Kelly (Princess of Monaco by marriage). Charlotte's full-brothers are Andrea & Pierre Casiraghi. Her father was killed in a boating accident when she was just four, and she was grown up in her mother's family. In 1999 Princess Caroline married for the third time to Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, through whom Charlotte has two stepbrothers & a half-sister, Princess Alexandra (born in 1999). Casiraghi was educated in French state schools, obtaining her baccalaureate from Lycée François-Couperin in 2004. She earned a licence of Philosophy in 2007 and completed two internships later that year. Charlotte was made an ambassador of the Club des Habits Rouges (an equestrian voluntary organisation) for Monaco by her grandfather, Prince Rainier III, at a young age, and is ever since involved in equestrian sports, being herself an amateur show jumper. She is also a journalist & magazine editor, founder of a Monegasque group of Philosophical affairs (Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco), and honorary member of several charities, educational & sports' organisations in Monaco & abroad.
While she is a private citizen, Casiraghi often attends official public events, including the Annual Bal de la Rose (/Rose Ball) with the Monegasque Princely family, raising money for the educational Princess Grace Foundation.
Charlotte Casiraghi & Dimitri Rassam were reportedly engaged in March 2018, though they never officially confirmed it. However, at this year's Rose Ball, they appeared together, with Charlotte wearing a diamond ring (he likely gave her), and visible signs of pregnancy. According to some sources they were planning to marry in 2018, but postponed their wedding until the birth of their child. As of yet their wedding is thought to be held sometime in 2019, with the civil ceremony taking place in Monaco, and the religious at the Italian island of Pantelleria, a property of Dimitri's mother. In early January 2019 some verifiable reports emerged, talking about the alleged cancellation of Casiraghi & Rassam's marriage, just two months after their son was born. However, these rumours were soon declined by a joint formal statement of the Couple, that warned legal proceedings against all the "unsubstantiated rumours of separation" (Update).
But... Why the birth of a child to commoners is reported as breaking story among Royal events??
Well Charlotte Casiraghi is a commoner from a royal mother. Her uncle is the reigning Prince of Monaco. Usually commoners are not counted among important royals, unless they are direct descendants (children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren) of a currently reigning monarch. But in the Monegasque royal family it is not exactly the same. The Principality's succession law is based on male preference cognatic primogeniture, which means that females are allowed to succeed the throne, only if none of their male siblings (& his descendants) is alive. Until 2002 only the direct descendants of a Prince (even adopted) could succeed the throne. And as the then Hereditary Prince Albert was the sole heir to the throne (his two sisters, including Princess Caroline would lose their succession rights after his accession), amid fears that after his death the 800-year-old Grimaldi dynasty would extinct - and if it could not be replaced by another, Monaco would lose its sovereignity - changed were made in Constitution, regarding the succession law. Now the line of succession could include siblings of a reigning monarch and their descendants, but not his/her adopted children, born out of the wedlock. Prince Albert - who succeeded his father in 2005 - had two illegitimate children he recognised, but couldn't anymore make his heirs. So, Princess Caroline of Hanover, became Hereditary Princess of Monaco (after her father's death), and the crown was expected to pass on her & her non-royal descendants, if Albert wouldn't produce any legitimate heir during his lifetime. Eventually he married Charlene Wittstock in 2011 & fathered twins in 2014 (including a son Jacques, who since then has replaced Caroline as heir of the throne). But until then, Caroline's elder son (& Charlotte's brother) Andrea Casiraghi was highly considered as the future Monegasque monarch, and her children (all included in line of succession) would become royals in case she ascended the throne. And while an extramarital child of a monarch could not succeed the throne, the extramarital offspring of any other heir can join the line of succession if his/her parents marry. The latter can happen with Balthazar Rassam too, should his parents legalise their union through marriage (meanwhile Balthazar five maternal first cousins, two of them born also in 2018, are among the first heirs of the Monegasque throne).
Casiraghis are unlikely to join the Princely family, but their established succession rights will remain upon them (unless the constitution changes again, or somebody of them declines his/her position in future).
links about this breaking story & further information:
https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2018102463824/charlotte-casiraghi-welcomes-second-child-royal-news/
https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/celebrity/charlotte-casiraghi-baby-name-17553
https://people.com/royals/charlotte-casiraghi-welcomes-baby/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Casiraghi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Rassam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_Monegasque_throne
https://us.hola.com/en/royalty/2019010213352/charlotte-casiraghi-breaks-dimitri-rassam-engagement/
https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2019010266110/charlotte-casiraghi-calls-off-engagement-after-baby-born/.
http://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/monaco/charlotte-casiraghi-denies-rumours-that-she-and-fiance-dimitri-rassam-have-split-114044
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